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Come join linux, firefox and open source software. We should have the right to choose what we want in our machines.

Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.

i genuinely do just think it's transparently regressive in a weird turnaround way that the only way the people of this website enjoy a het ship is if the ENTIRE focus is on how awesome and hot and perfect and unstoppable a woman is and how the man is like there to make googly eyes at her and get like nonspecifically dommed-by-implication and we never get ANY thoughts about what she sees in him or what emotional needs are fulfilled for her besides the implication that what every woman wants is someone whos obsessed with her. you people love to find new creative ways to ignore womens interiority

This is not a men’s rights post if you want to do mra shit make your own post

fandom about some mf (is a man): you might dislike this character but you have to admit he's very interesting. even if you don't like him, he's a very well-written character. he's very complex. so even if you dislike him you should maybe reconsider that. because he's complex and interesting. and i think deep down he cares so much. there's a lot to analyze about his decisions, which he was force to make due to the terrible position he was put in. and if you don't like him you don't really understand the show tbh.

same fandom about a woman who has done comparable or much tamer things, with a much smaller fraction of fans: this may be a hot take but no one else has said this and i have to get this off my chest. some of you might like her but she is a TERRIBLE PERSON! she didn't have to do any of those things she did. she put herself into a bad situation, inconveniencing everyone around her and showing no remorse for it whatsoever. you may like her but i just don't get it!! if you like her or defend any of her actions, you are probably a real life abuser and hate women. so even if you do like her, maybe think about that. you can like her but you have to admit her flaws. otherwise you are encouraging women in real life to murder others and commit crimes, which is ignorant and wrong. her sympathetic scenes are not even canon because they're so manipulative, performative, and trite. such a waste of screen time very obviously trying to get us to feel bad for a MONSTER! she clearly didn't actually mean any of the good things she's done. deep down she is just a rotten human being with no motive but to make other people's lives miserable. i'm sorry but that's the truth.

Gather around kids, I am Very Old and I remember the summer of 2000. Good times on the Fox forums, deep in battle with the NoRoMos.

Mulder had just been abducted and Scully revealed she was pregnant. The Shippers were losing their minds and the NoRoMos were coming for us, saying it wasn't Mulder's baby, that it must have been the result of some alien experiment and therefore the baby was an alien. They trolled us by insisting the alien baby's name was Meepmork.

Does anyone else remember this or am I making it up?

how to say "I love you" in x-files [148/?] ⤷ 2.17 — “End Game”

Scully — when you get this message, I’ll be too far away for you to stop me. But where I’m going I can’t allow you to follow. I won’t let you jeopardize your life and your career for reasons purely personal to me. You were right, Scully. You said a line has to be drawn somewhere and I’m drawing it for you here. I’ll contact you when I can.

I love me some x-files but also been reminiscing about mlp so…

I watched a video about how Lost suffered from being a network tv show and I think a lot of the same issues can be applied to the X-Files. The point of the video was that to write a good mystery, you really need to know the conclusion going in because everything about a mystery should be leading to the conclusion. But on a network show where the executives won't let the writers clearly define how long it's going to be, you can't plan a conclusion. Lost kept being extended, which forced the writers to constantly add new twists and elements to the show without really being able to actually answer the questions raised, ultimately leading to an unsatisfying conclusion.

I think this is exactly the same reason I like the X-Files monster of the week episodes but don't really care about the myth arc. The alien invasion plotline had the same problem as Lost in that they constantly had to draw it out as the show kept getting continued and newer, poorly thought out plot points had to be constantly added instead of answering question (for example, the like 7 different answers about what happened to Mulder's sister). The monster of the week episodes, being mostly self-contained, didn't have that problem. The writers knew where the mystery would conclude: at the end of the episode. This ended up making the monster of the week episodes often much more satisfying to watch than a myth arc episode whose questions just wouldn't be answered.

Things about Skinner that are always funny to me:

He is STACKED. That man is BUILT.

His willingness to throw hands on Mulder and Scully's behalf.

This is a pattern balding man with glasses who works a desk job. By stereotype alone he would not be a hunk. Walter Skinner is a hunk who at all times is in need of a yearlong vacation, several orgasms, and at least one bucket of margaritas.

The fact that somehow he has managed to stay at the FBI after all the shit he's done over the years. Walter. HOW.

He's savvy enough to do that, and if you watch episodes like 'Avatar' you realize he can do this only because he used up all of his intelligence points on everything that isn't emotional intelligence.